[Ads-l] "morale boost"

[George Thompson]

Russian troops bypassed a couple cities south of Izyum to surprise-take the
settlement of Kurulka,

GAT

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 1:21 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Verb.
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> CNN: "He's trying to morale-boost his nation."
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> JL
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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